To her bier Comes the year Not with weeping and distress…

Whoever becomes imbued with a noble idea kindles a flame from which other torches are lit, and influences those with whom he comes in…

— Henry George

“One by one, the villager torches are lit, and a fire spreads through their circle until it blazes like an enormous bullion ring.”

— Anonymous

I already, and for weeks afterward, felt my nature the coarser for this part of my woodland experience, and was reminded that ourlife should…

— Henry David Thoreau

Developers have the attention spans of slightly moronic woodland creatures.

— Linus Torvalds

The key to our oldest woodland is that it has been cut down and regrown, in some cases as often as 50 or 60…

— Monty Don

My favourite plant is the foxglove. I think they are a perfect balance between being a garden plant and a wild plant, as at…

— Clive Anderson

People who record birdsong generally do it very early-before six o'clock-if they can. Soon after that, the invasion of distant noise in most woodland…

— Richard Adams

Out of the bosom of the Air, Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken, Over the woodlands brown and bare, Over the harvest-fields…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Happier are all men than the dwellers in Faerie – or the gods, for that matter…Better a life like a falling star, bright across…

— Poul Anderson

And beyond the timeless meadows and emerald pastures, the rabbit holes and moss-covered oak and rowan trees and the "slippy sloppy" houses of frogs,…

— Susan Branch

Narrative should flow as flows the brook down through the hills and the leafy woodlands...a brook that never goes straight for a minute, but…

— Mark Twain

Can anything compare to the sight of the first yellow violets blooming along a woodland path? These most fragile of plants are yet hardy…

— Howard Evans

Heartless though it may seem to some, among the least harmful things to eat are sustainably culled wild animals. In the absence of natural…

— Tristram Stuart

I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks; I follow the path that seems most promising at any…

— John Fowles

Sometimes by a woodland stream he watched the water rush over the pebbled bed, its tiny modulations of bounce and flow. A woman's body…

— Salman Rushdie